Louis Armstrong’s Life, Digitized

Louis Armstrong’s Life, Digitized

As a musician, composer and activist, Louis Armstrong needs no introduction. One of the most influential musicians of the 20thcentury, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong captivated the nation with his virtuosity on the trumpet, the timbre of his voice and his natural ability to govern the performance stage at any given time. Unlike most composers or musicians that we study regularly here at the Cali School, Armstrong’s posterity made him unique amongst contemporaries. He wrote over 10,000 letters to fans and hundreds of personal memoirs, many of which have been stored in the Louis Armstrong House Museum. Thanks to a generous grant from the Fund II Foundation, these archives are now digitized and accessible to the public. Take a read! Click here to read the NY Times article.